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Right.  I'm the PP who brought up the Gburg cluster.  I guess my larger point was that busing already happens to a certain degree.  [b]Those kids that live way up past Brink road are bused down to Gburg Middle because they are white.  [/b]

So we need 2 things: -
- a rebalance of the boundary priorities, where diversity is not the number 1 consideration
- redrawing of the boundaries, because stupid clusters already exist.
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They're bused to Gaithersburg MS because they go to Laytonsville ES. There isn't a middle school particularly close to Laytonsville. I'm looking at the map, and I see a bunch of them about 5-6 miles away. Which middle school would you have them be assigned to? And do that school and its feeder HS have room for another ES?

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I don't live there, but based on what people I know have told me, they want to be reassigned to Rosa Parks MS and Sherwood HS.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/planning/unityarea.aspx[/quote]
Doing it this way would require MCPS to do away with the cluster model and create a system where people go to school closest to where they live as opposed to going to the MS that your ES feeds into. Because from a big-picture, practical standpoint, Laytonsville ES is 6 miles from G’burg MS and 5 miles from Rosa Parks MS, that is a negligible difference. Boundaries are never going to be able to please everyone and such a large school district cannot accommodate individualized preferences. [/quote]
What you are saying is perfectly reasonable.  What's not reasonable is to bus kids to schools many miles farther from home because of their skin color or family income like east county progressives want.  According to the boundary analysis, 90% of the county agrees with me.[/quote]

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